WeeklyUpdates/2009-11-02

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NOTE: The US and many other countries ended Daylight Savings Time early Sunday morning and returned to Standard Time. So now the Update meeting with be at 19:00 UTC (the "new" 11am PST) Monday.

Friends of the Tree

• KaiRo wants to nominate Philip Chee (Ratty on IRC) for sending an add-on compatibility message for SeaMonkey 2.0 to several forums and now going through authors to send individual emails for making their add-ons compatible with 2.0 - of course, all on his free time.
• Anthony Huges writes in "This week I would like to nominate Aleksej as a friend of the tree for coming out and contributing to both days of our 2-day Mozmill Testscripting Testday last week."
• Andreas wrote in "I would like to nominate Graydon Hoare (Mozilla) and Rick Reitmaier (Adobe) for their work on merging Mozilla's and Adobe's versions of the NanoJIT backend. With completion of this herculean Sisyphus task Adobe and Mozilla will be able to jointly develop NanoJIT instead of having to maintain two individual versions of it. This will also broaden our test coverage and test backend changes and optimizations against 2 virtual machines, our JavaScript engine as well as Adobe's Flash Player VM."
• Gozer wrote in (a week ago, sorry for the delay) "I wish to nominate Henry Nester for friend of the tree. He is our #1 thunderbird 3 tester by far and a key part of the push to Thunderbird 3 [at the top of this chart] [1] He's also a primo tester of .de locale build and an awesome spot check tester of localized builds (special note for ludo+gozer) [2] and also a great bug reporter [3]

Development Updates

Firefox

( Projects | Status | Goals | People )

Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

Firefox Future

Team News

Gecko

• Fun times in CrashKill meetings:
  • dbaron has a patch in bug 521750 that will potentially fix 5-15% of crashes due to thread badness. This is going into release as soon as possible.
  • Other crash patches, from newer bugs: Font crash on startup: bug 524462, and a gif encoder crash: bug 525326
  • Will be talking about metrics and tools in today's meeting, along with individual bugs.
• Blockers:
  • P1: 4
  • P2: 83
  • P3: 1
  • Other: 9
• Team blocker numbers:
  • Layout: 12
  • Content: 20
  • GFX: 10
  • JS: 19

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
  • shipped last Tuesday!
  • 3.5.4 stability issues caught after push...

• Firefox 3.5.5
  • scheduling a short-cycle release
  • developers jumped on creating fixes and had them ready by Friday evening (yay!)
  • hoping to start builds today or tomorrow

• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6
  • code freeze is November 10 at 11:59pm
  • please work on your blockers
  • targeting mid-December release

SeaMonkey

• SeaMonkey 2.0 has been released last Tuesday!
• Mostly good feedback, some migration issues from xpfe suites

IT

Last Week

• Migrated labs.mozilla.com to mozillalabs.com

This Week

• Tuesday bugzilla.mozilla.org Upgrade
  • Up in stage @ https://bugzilla-stage-tip.mozilla.org
  • Please play with it and report problems *before* it goes to production. :)

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped Firefox 3.0.15 and 3.5.4 (with much delay on day of shipping)
• Shipped Fx3.6b1 (week delay)

Web Dev Testing

• We now have in-litmus? and in-testsuite? flags for AMO and SUMO!
• Wrote Mozilla.com automation tool to check redirects to landing pages for all the supported locales.
• Created automated testcases to validate search functionality with advanced options; Completed test cases for platforms and applications. Developed Test cases for (AMO) Collections - a. Remove collection from favorites b. assign 'Manage' permission on collection c. Delete Collection

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Accessibility:
  • Oversaw the landing of all the table accessibility patches on the 1.9.2 branch. Nominated a few ones that landed on central during my vacation. Verified all the bugs listed here. This basically completes the feature set of the a11y module, except for one or two patches David and Alex might still have in the pipeline.
  • Published a new Easy ARIA tip in response to a result from WebAIM's second screen reader survey results.
• Community
  • Testday: 2 day Testscripting with MozMill 1.3 even was held last week. It was hosted by Seneca College student and previous Mozilla intern, ashughes. See Testday Results
  • Recently found 7 people interested in getting involved via VolunteerMatch and http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/
  • Helped with OpenSource meeting up involving Thunderbird in Munich. See Tomcat's blog entry.
• Metrics - Windows coverage is now available!

Test Development

• Jetpack test framework completed, preview to be released this week to labs
• Mochitest OOP plugin tests running on E10S tree
• Continuing work on Mobile Test Framework now called Orodurin.
• More notes here

Marketing/PR

PR

• Mitchell Baker and John Lilly's Net Neutrality Wall Street Journal op-ed
• Webmonkey.com review of Firefox on Nokia N900
• Firefox 3.6 beta released on Friday
• More WOFF!

General

Mozilla Service Week

Events

• Firefox Developers Conference 2009 November 8, Tokyo, Japan. Add-on authors will get together. Aza Raskin on Jetpack, Chris Blizzard on the future of the Web. 200+ attendees.
• Music Hack Day November 21-22, 200; Boston, MA.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA.  We are sponsoring this event and starting to build sessions around the event theme.
• Internet Identity Workshop November 3-5, 2009.  We are sponsoring this conference.  
• OWASP AppSec DC 2009  November 10-13, 2009; Washington, DC.  Web application security conference - we are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand.  Perfect venue to promote open video.  We are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on putting together a Firefox party.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  

Community

Five Years of Firefox

• November 8th - Belgrade, Serbia (80 people)
• November 9th - Paris, France (700 people)
• November 9th - Skopje, Macedonia (50 people)
• November 9th - Warsaw (media + community)
• November 9th - Barcelona, Spain (50 people)
• November 9th - Sofia + 3 other cities , Bulgaria (50 people each)
• November 11th - Ljubljana, Slovenia (100 people)
• November 12th - Madrid, Spain (100 people)
• November 14th - Bucharest, Romania (100 people)
• November 21st - Hyderabad, India (200 people)
• November 27th - Rome, Italy (300 people) TBC
• November ? - Berlin, Germany
• November ? - Brussels, Belgium
• November ? - Poland
• November ? - Distrito Federal, Mexico (200 people) TBD
• End of November - Santiago, Chile (500 people)

Support

• SUMO 2010 update:
  • Collected lots of great ideas and suggestions for SUMO in 2010 from the community
  • This week we'll focus on formalizing & prioritizing these ideas into actual milestones
  • First draft of 2010 roadmap expected within a couple of weeks
• Updating Firefox Support articles to Firefox 3.6
  • Page listing articles that need updating – your help appreciated!
  • Blog post: Updating the knowledge base for Firefox 3.6 – Which articles need to be updated

Metrics

• Firefox Market Share – two monthly reports came out yesterday. Both StatCounter and Net Applications show Firefox gaining nearly 0.5% in worldwide share during October.

L10n

Fennec

Foundation Updates

• We are looking at creating more "Activities Modules" - i.e. non-code areas of the project with an owner and peers. If you know an area which would benefit from having this structure, join the discussion in mozilla.governance.

• Over the weekend, Mark posted an overview of where Drumbeat stands -- what parts are 'stable' and what's still in flux. This is a good post for people who want a snapshot of the process w/o diving into the wiki or forums.